Here are for you new mom, some of this illness frequently happen to your baby, know this symtom and desease to help you when you are facing this situation :
Fever
The body temperature above 37.5 degrees Celsius is indicates that your baby suffers a fever and he is attempting against the infection. When the body temperature continues to increase, it is likely that he fell ill a fever. If it is happen you have to try to reduce his temperature. Note the behavior of babies. When the body temperature is high but it seems ok, there’s no reason to worry, except when the body temperature reaches 39 degrees centigrade and he appeared lethargic and slumber.
First Aid
Try to lower his body temperature as quickly as possible with release his clothes and compress with warm water. Give it a special baby paracetamol according to the recommended dose. The dose can be seen on drug packaging.
Immediately contact a doctor if your baby:
1. Under the age of three months and the body temperature more than 37.5 degrees centigrade, or look very uncomfortable.
2. Having a strain history
3. Look sleepy, skin rash appears, or have difficulty breathing and
4. He is suffering fever more than three days.
Most convulsions triggered by fever only lasted about 20 seconds.
Diarrhea
When your baby is suffering from diarrhea, his faces is liquid. It may also be accompanied by fever, vomiting, wouldn’t like to eat and stomachache. Generally it is the alimentary tract infections (bacterial infection). Diarrhea can be dangerous because it can cause dehydration, especially in infants. The characteristic of dehydration in child is he will appeared sleepy or even loss of consciousness.
First thing that you can do:
Coaxing the child to drink a lot of water, or give him breast milk. You also can give a special liquid to overcome dehydration. Do not worry if in two or three day the child doesn’t have appetite. The important thing is do not let him running out of fluid.
Contact your doctor if your baby:
1. Under 1 year and had diarrhea for more than 24 hours
2. Demonstrating signs of dehydration such as infrequent urinate, having dry lips, dry skin and the baby’s cantle also concave.
3. Bleeding on his feces, which is the symptom of inflammation or infection of the intestinal disturbances.